Speakers and Presenters
The EMDC speaker community spans Bible translation, media production, linguistics, digital innovation, trauma healing, orality, and Scripture engagement, sorted by last name.
This roster mixes 2026 presenters with many who have served at past EMDC events. Only current-year bios are kept fully up to date. To update a bio, email training@emdc.info.
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Dr. Wayne Dye
SIL missiology consultant for nearly 50 years and SIL’s first Scripture Engagement Consultant; now teaches full time at GIAL, with a special interest in the opportunities smartphones offer for engagement.
Aldrin Bogi · 2026
Global VP for Partnerships at Biblica; led the creation of “Asha: A Journey to Healing,” a Scripture engagement program now used across India, Africa, Eurasia, MENA, and Asia.
Peter Brassington · 2026
Digital Scripture Engagement Consultant with SIL Global Media Services; nearly 30 years in digital Bible translation work, and lead developer of emdc.guide and New Neighbour Bible.
Joshy Kurian · 2026
Asia Digital Engagement Coordinator at Faith Comes By Hearing; active in the EMDC community since 2013 and on its Executive Steering Committee since 2015.
Sunny Hong · 2026
Director of Global Diaspora Services and senior anthropology consultant at SIL International, with a focus on bridging cultural gaps and advocating for minorities and refugees.
Stan Jantz
Global Ambassador for Come and See, and author or co-author of 75 books with more than four million copies sold.
Marco Arjona · BibleProject
Presented BibleProject’s mission to help people experience the Bible as one unified story, now available in 55 languages.
Jennifer Brassington · 2026
Scripture Engagement Coordinator for SIL Global; teaches the Culture Meets Scripture course helping believers examine their worldview against Scripture.
John Hatton
25-year SIL software developer and designer of HearThis, SayMore, WeSay, and Bloom, and a principal designer of FLEx.
Rev Dr. Sue Barclay · 2026
Tutor in Contextual Theology and Mission Studies at All Nations Christian College, focused on gender, migration, and ethics.
Calvin and Carol Conkey · 2026
Founders of Create International, producing media and arts resources for unreached peoples since 1978 across more than 65 nations.
Ron Lockwood
Nearly 25 years with SIL; creator of FLExTrans, a rule-based machine translation program built on the FLEx dictionary and linguistic software.
Mark Penny · 2026
SIL’s Language Technology Coordinator for Asia; helped invent several translator tools, most recently PTXprint.
David Garrison
Missionary pioneer studying church-planting movements for nearly four decades; author of Church Planting Movements and A Wind in the House of Islam.
Michael Martin
SIL software developer focused on AI and natural language processing, contributing to the Scripture Forge and Serval products.
This is a curated sample of the full roster, which runs to well over a hundred presenters. Because the complete set of biographies is lengthy, the most reliable way to bring every entry across with full wording intact is the WordPress Duplicate Page method described earlier — happy to walk through that whenever you’re ready.